The Jetty: In-Person Screening and Q&A with Jenna Coleman

WFTV members are invited to this special morning screening of BBC crime drama, The Jetty. The screening will include episode one of the series,  followed by a Q&A with lead actor Jenna Coleman, creator, writer and exec. producer Cat Jones and executive producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff.

There will be an opportunity to have a coffee and say hello to other WFTV members before the screening begins.

Date: Thursday 20th June

Location: Soho Hotel Screening Room, The Soho Hotel, 4 Richmond Mews, London, W1D 3DH

Event Schedule:

09:30am: Guest Arrivals with welcome drinks

10:00am: Introduction

10:10am: Episode one of The Jetty to screen

11:10am: Q&A with lead actor Jenna Coleman, creator, writer and exec. producer Cat Jones and executive producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff.

Synopsis of The Jetty

In the four-part series, a fire tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town. Detective Ember Manning must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.

But as Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she’s always called home. As much a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller, The Jetty asks big questions about sexual morality, identity and memory, in the places that Me Too has left behind.

Jenna Coleman stars as rookie detective Ember Manning in The Jetty, alongside Archie Renaux (The Greatest Beer Run, Shadow and Bone, Romulus), Laura Marcus (The Great Escaper, Bad Education, The Serpent Queen), Bo Bragason (The Ballad of Renegade Nell, The Radleys), Amelia Bullmore (Happy Valley, Vienna Blood, Gentleman), Ruby Stokes (Lockwood & Co., Rocks, Una), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon, Dunkirk, The King), Weruche Opia (High Desert, Slumberland, I May Destroy You), Matthew McNulty (The Rising, Domina, The Terror), Ralph Ineson (Nosferatu, The Witch, Green Knight), David Ajala (Italian Studies), Nina Barker-Francis (The Flash), Miya Ocego (Wreck, I Hate Suzie), Elliot Cowan (Fifteen-Love, The Crown), Shannon Watson, Arthur Hughes (Then Barbara Met Alan, Help), Dominic Coleman (Paddington, Trollied) and Ruaridh Mollica (Sebastian, A Thousand Blows).

Jenna Coleman, Lead Actor

BAFTA-nominated British actor, Jenna Coleman, most recently appeared on our screens in Jackdaw for Vertigo, opposite Oliver Jackson-Cohen. An action-thriller, the film centred around a former motocross champion and army veteran, who takes on a new job that will change his life. Jenna also appeared in Wilderness for Prime Video, which received critical acclaim. Based on B.E Jones’ best-selling novel of the same name, Jenna led the series alongside Oliver Jackon-Cohen and Ashley Benson.

Jenna will next appear in crime drama, The Jetty, for the BBC, set to air in 2024. In addition, she will star in the action thriller Control opposite James McAvoy and Julianne Moore.

Previous onscreen credits include Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman for Netflix and The Serpent for the BBC, in which she starred as the lead. Last year, Jenna took on the role of Flo in the British dark comedy Klokkenluider, directed by Neil Maskell. Previous on-screen credits include the titular role in Victoria for ITV, Doctor Who for the BBC and also The Cry.

Theatre credits include Lemons (2023), opposite Aidan Turner, at the Harold Pinter and All My Sons (2019) at the Old Vic, alongside Bill Pullman and Sally Field.

Cat Jones, Creator, Writer & Exec. Producer

Cat is a writer, director and composer. She is the creator and writer of The Jetty, a four-part thriller, produced by Firebird Pictures which is due to broadcast on BBC 1 this summer.

Cat started her writing career on the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme and Channel 4's 4Screenwriting. Her television writing credits include: Harlots (Hulu/BBC/Monumental), Youngers (C4/Big Talk), Eastenders (BBC), Will (TNT), Waterloo Road (BBC/Shed) and Wolfe (Sky/Abbotvision). She wrote the original BBC iPlayer short Flea and wrote and created the short form series Five by Five (BBC) co-created with Idris Elba, for which she led the writers' room.

Cat has written and directed a number of short films including the Creative England funded Little Big House and Cushy, which was made on a micro budget with serving prisoners at HMP Doncaster. It won the Yorkshire Short Film Award at the Leeds International Film Festival.

Cat's theatre work includes Glory Dazed, which won the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award before picking up further awards at the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe festivals and completing a sell-out run at Soho Theatre. Cat wrote the book and co-wrote the music for musical The Natives (Old Vic New Voices) and she also spent a year as Writer in Residence at The Manchester Royal Exchange.

Cat's plays Hangdog, The Fix and Bound have been broadcast on Radio 4 and she has written music for television shows Dixi (Kindle/BBC), Youngers (C4/Big Talk), and Harlots (Hulu/BBC/Monumental).

Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Executive Producer

Elizabeth Kilgarriff is CEO of Firebird Pictures and former Senior Commissioning Editor for BBC Drama. 

With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, her multi award-winning portfolio of work includes Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Bodyguard, Bafta winning thrillers The Cry and The Victim, Emmy nominated Luther, International Emmy winning McMafia and the critically acclaimed Thirteen starring Jodie Comer. Since setting up Firebird Pictures in 2019 she has produced Bafta winning Wilderness for Amazon Prime Video which launched in 2023 as the number one show in 27 countries - and has four more shows shooting this year.

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